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haxordan.bsky.social
Husband, father, and nerd. Professionally, I do security stuff. Posts are mine. E-mail is best.
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If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

This is what I want to see from our congresspeople and other anti-fascist government employees. We need them to put themselves on the line the same way we are.

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

This oughta wakeup the 'just wait for the midterms' crowd.

dailyboulder.com/doge-website...

Garcia: "I find it ironic that our chairman, Rep. Greene, is in charge of running this committee. In the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our Oversight hearing, so I thought I'd bring one as well. This, of course, is President Elon Musk ... "

BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪👩‍🔬

Email sent to all CFPB staff this morning: "Please do not perform any work tasks."

A reminder that "executive orders" are exactly that - orders from the president for the executive branch. They are not laws, and they do not directly bind anyone not in the executive branch of the US government. They might affect how laws are enforced and other things the executive branch does […]

“free speech”

End-to-end encryption by default means “if you show up with a warrant or a subpoena (to Signal), they have almost nothing about you that they can hand over,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @cnn.com.

OPSEC? What's that? This is VERY bad for our operatives. *shakes head*

This. Is. Amazing. Finally, an ebook alternative for Amazon, but for independent bookstores. This is amazing for readers who want to be more intentional about where you're spending your money. 📖 #BookSky

Trump’s friend Charlie Kirk: “I’m sorry. If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’”

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

Trump Puts Hundreds of Violent Criminals Back on the Streets www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/21/t...

Some great speakers lined up for ProtectCon 2025! Still time to get free tickets over at protectcon.org (and see the rest of the lineup!)

One-time-pads. Learn how to make and use them. Sure, they're low-tech and not the most convenient, but they're your best best to keep communications secret.

He didn’t put his hand on the Bible when swearing in. Probably because that would set it on fire.

I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file. PDFs support Javascript, so Emscripten is used to compile Doom to asm.js, which is then run within the PDF engine. Input/output is done by manipulating text input fields. doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf github.com/ading2210/do...